Canada thinks it can teach the world a thing or two about dodging financial meltdowns. The 20 world leaders at an economic summit in Toronto next weekend will find themselves in a country that has avoided a banking crisis where others have flounde...

Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.

Taser International continued Thursday to dismiss reports that some of the stun guns it manufactures can deliver larger than expected electrical currents, as another province moved to test the devices.

A proposal that the federal government provide a bailout for a restructuring of $32-billion of frozen asset-backed commercial paper has sparked anger among some holders of the frozen notes, who say that taxpayers' money should not be used to fix t...

CALGARY -- Alberta will implement renewable fuel standards as part of a provincial energy strategy, the government introduced yesterday. Premier Ed Stelmach used the occasion to once again press Ottawa for an agreement about emission targets and a...

The Bank of Canada slashed its key interest rate yesterday by three-quarters of a percentage point to the lowest level in half a century and confirmed Canada's economy is "entering a recession" because of the deepening global economic slump.

Foreign workers who complained of substandard pay and housing while working on the Canada Line have won a $2.4-million discrimination award against their employers.
However, it is not clear that they will be able to collect.

Broadcaster and newspaper owner Canwest Global Communications saw its operating profit increase by 13 per cent to $558 million in the last fiscal year, but it still posted a net loss of $1.04 billion, including a $1.01 billion write-down of goodwi...

Canada's health-care spending is expected to reach its highest level ever - $171.9-billion this year, or $5,170 per person - growing faster than the economy and outpacing inflation and population growth, new figures show.

WINNIPEG - The Harper government is considering selling real estate and other Crown assets to help keep the budget balanced as the economy worsens. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, at the Conservative party policy convention here, made it clear that...

TORONTO — Cost pressures and plunging share prices prompted Canadian publisher and broadcaster CanWest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) to cut 560 jobs - about five per cent of its workforce - Wednesday as the company faces a rougher economy ...

The Canada Pension Plan lost $10.3 billion during the early weeks of the worst global stock market crash in generations. John Denison, president of the CPP Investment Board, acknowledges more of Canadians' retirement savings have evaporated since ...